From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cvsserver.perl: encourage use of English module and qx() operator
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:55:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y6gncp69.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mxx3qr6y.fsf@jondo.cante.net> (Jari Aalto's message of "Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:48:21 +0300")
>>>>> "Jari" == Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
Jari> It would be interesting to know why not. These magic variables are hard
Jari> to read and remember without consulting the manual pages.
Because it was observed over time that the aliases were *also* hard to
remember without consulting the manpages. :)
So you were merely trading one problem for another, and since far more
code is out there that does *not* use English than does, we agreed that
use English was an interesting but failed experiment.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-16 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-16 16:32 [PATCH] git-cvsserver.perl: encourage use of English module and qx() operator jari.aalto
2010-04-16 16:40 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2010-04-16 16:48 ` Jari Aalto
2010-04-16 16:55 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2010-04-16 17:24 ` [PATCH v2] " jari.aalto
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